Senior Software Engineer

The Company

A world leader in strategic business research and analysis. A recognized innovator, consistently outperforming their peers with accolades such as Private Company of the Year . They have offices in 14 countries with around 1,200 staff and a further 800 contributing analysts in over 80 countries around the world

Role Overview

Reporting to the Technical Lead, seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in building scalable, predictable, high-quality and high-performing web applications on the Microsoft technology stack.

Responsible for building and maintaining internal and external facing applications. You will work with a team of experienced developers and business resources to build high-performing enterprise systems that assist clients in making the best strategic decisions for their business.

Key responsibilities

• Design applications according to end user needs.
• Track projects, tasks and bugs using the company specified work tracking system.
• Understand requirements from a business perspective and contribute to designing clear, easy-to-use applications from a user perspective.
• Involved in the creation of completely new applications or, build upon the functionality of existing ones.
• Involved in the development of  technology solutions to improve functionality, user-friendliness and presentation of products.
• Independent research contributing to technical discussions where required.
• Ensure compliance of final product with end-user specifications through regular reviews with designated end-user groups where applicable.
• Peer code review .
• Monitor, analyze and act on post-deployment bugs.
• Review of user feedback and proposing/implementing action plans for development.
• Provide any required support to end-users of the applications.
• Contribute to the training of team members on agile development practices, use of appropriate design patterns and SOLID/design principles in their day-to-day work.
• Responsible for the technical quality of junior team members within the team.
• Ensure the writing of concise documentation for applications and websites.
• Participating in the recruitment of new staff.
• Ensure the SCRUM Team has the highest level of code quality and test coverage.
• Engage in technical discussion contributing to design and development.
• Contribute the practice of BDD/TDD/DDD as part of the software engineer best practice.

Technical skills/experience

• 5+ years hands on development experience using Microsoft .NET technologies to build Micro Service Architecture, Event Driven Architecture, Web Applications.
• Experience\Solid Understanding in the below frameworks:
  • .NET Core
  • MVC .Net Framework 4.6.*
  • WebApi Net Framework 4.6.*
  • Angular
  • SQL Server or Azure SQL and/or NoSQL
  • Asp.Net Core
• Experience\Understanding of DevOpspractices including:
  • Continuous integration/Deployment (CI/CD)
  • QA Automation
  • Release Process
  • Cloud Development
  • Health Monitoring
  • Feature Toggle based development
  • Cross Function collaboration
• Experience\Understanding to the below testing toolset:
  • Postman, Insomnia
  • MSTest/NUnit
  • Protractor, Jasmine
  • JMeter
  • OWASP ZAP
• Experience\Understanding to Cloud technologies including:
  • Azure
  • Google
• OOP programming (theoretical and practical experience of design principles and patterns)
• Experience\Understanding with
  • Agile methodologies
  • BDD (Behaviour Driven Development
  • Test Driven Development (TDD)
  • Domain Driven Design (DDD)
  • Event Driven Architecture
  • API Gateways and Service Discovery
• Solid knowledge with Visual Studio programming environments and Azure DevOps

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